I agree with your sentiment, but walking at night, you probably won’t see em.
They come right up to the farmhouse. I have apple trees next to the house and when my kids were babies I went out one night to yell at them to shut up.
Two just looked at me as if sizing me up. But before my temper took over, my English mastiff, who had come out behind me, went past me faster than I have ever seen it move. There was no doubt nothing would be left of those coyotes but smears in the dirt.
They took off with a two hundred pound dog hot on their trail. They aren’t stupid. I didn’t see or hear of a coyote on my side of the lake for months.